Bottle Jack Hack - Axe Wedge Press
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2018
- A common problem when hanging an axe head on a handle is to hit the wedge too hard with a hammer and causing it to split. I know I've done it enough to be frustrated! I had this old bottle jack lying around and thought surely I'd be able to re-use it into some sort of manual hydraulic press. Here's the results. Made from scrap I had lying around. Mark I - works very well and already have some ideas for modifying and improving for the next one! Enjoy!
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This sir is hands down the best repurpose for an old bottle Jack and will be a future build & piddling project well done sir well done!
These videos are so satisfying to watch. They sparking me to do some with my skillz
Drilling,grinding,welding,sanding. the sweet sound of a workshop
Neat idea!
Gotta send him some of that paint remover spray you're fond of..
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You and Will are master of restorations.
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Wonderful idea. Was wondering the whole time what you were making than blew my mind in the end
Watching this gave me an idea to make a bottle jack wood splitter!
Wow I'm shocked, Beautiful work !!
That's just some brilliant outside the box thinking and design.
Great works and craftmanship !
I need a small press just like this. Your design is simpler and cost effective by utilizing a single rectangular pipe and adding 2 bolts to the limiting plate. What I was thinking is basically scaled down version of full size manual hydraulic press. After I saw your video, I realized I don't need side rectangular pipes for a small press having head traveling upto 8 inches.
Thank you.
well done that came out a treat
I love the ingenuity! Turned out well!
These videos are great. Thanks for sharing them.
Wow, really great idea and job! Well Done!
Fascinating! I take it you re-handle a lot of axes? It’s great to see a how-to video where the craftsman is thorough and meticulous, prepping the metal properly and priming and painting the finished project. I don’t need this particular tool, but I’m subscribing to see what else you come up with! Thanks.
I have just watched this video. You are an awesome craftsman and I would let you build anything I wanted built.... I really like how you took the time and done everything slow and right the first time (not including the little miscalculation, I liked that as well )
Another fantastic job, great video.
Amazing work ! Congratulations !
Great Idea!!! came out really nice!! that wood wedge piece slid in their like throwing a hotdog down a hallway!! lol
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Yeah, I noticed that too.
Love the logic I need to install a wedge in an axe handle. I know I'll build a press! LOL once again excellent craftsmanship. Thoroughly enjoyed watching your video.
Excellent welding technique, congrats from Argentina
Thanks mate, this means a lot considering it's my first MIG welding project! Gotta love youtube videos for learning....haha
Great work - the concept can be expanded for other press work, no doubt. A Chevy pickup truck drive shaft carrier bearing comes to mind 🤔
EXCELLENT build Will !!! I try not to read what it is you're building, I try to guess 😁,,, ya had me to the end on this one!!! 😂... VERY NICE!! Thank You for sharing, take care and God Bless you always my friend!!!!!👍👍👍
I've GOT TO build me one of these!
I have a 10 TON Bottle Jack that would be PERFECT for Cedar!
This is the Pinnacle of Engineering Mastery!
Thanks for sharing this. :-)
-Thomas
Port Orchard, Washington
The trick from the magnetic was cool. Thanks for sharing.
Great Idea!!! came out really nice!!
That is cool! Now I want one.
Complimenti..bravissimo. Grande manualità e ottimo lavoro!
Nice job & workshop, just noticed the grinder/sander video, so going to watch that. Thank you.
You should be rightfully proud of that mate.
I really really like that, you did an excellent job.
That’s a great work.
Thank you for sharing.
Nice build and great idea. Cool video too!
Great idea. You now have a useful tool from an old bottle jack, some tubing and plate.
Excellent work, thank you !!!
Another great piece of work!
New mig welder?
Looking forward to Mark 2 also.
I’ve now watched and enjoyed all of your videos. Glad you took the music out- haha. I just wanted you to know that I (and obviously thousands of others) appreciate the time and effort you take for camera angles, videography and editing! A real joy to watch! Thank you very much!
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Hey, great video! Awesome talent and craftsmanship. I also appreciate a "shop sights and sounds" video without annoying music.
Brilliant job mate. Cheers
J Rand
Awesome video and build!
another awesome piece man, I need a press badly. more so a bigger one for wheel bearings for cars ect. but thats still awesome for the little engine repairs you do.
Great idea for pressing ball bearings in place! Now I know how to diy such a brilliant and compact device!
When I was a young motorcycle mechanic in Ireland in 1979, I made a press for straightening fork tubes using a bottle jack like this, after much welding and buying of steel I found out that bottle jacks didn't work upside down, if only we had the internet in those days!
Haha I started planning this horizontally until I realized the bottle jack only worked vertically! Haha
I learned the hard way, sadly.
Great construction, good setup 👍
brilliant idea , im going to have to make one now
Another great project. After watching your chainsaw restoration I came here I see you used this to aid in the pressing of the bearings in that video. This press will have multiple uses. I do think you should have welded a heavy gusset from the base to the tube opposite the jack that would increase the strength. Nice work !!!
Very nice
Beautiful craftsmanship
Great idea for making a press and nice fabrication. For putting in wedges or pushing out old handles I have two bench vices mounted one in front of the other a foot apart. One holds the axe. One holds the bottle jack. Easy to tap in a wedge and push it in with the jack. To push a broken handle out use a piece of steel that will slide through the eye. Hold on end of eye and push through with the bottle jack.
Very nice tool ,wide range of uses no doubt .Hello from Jamaica
This is a great way of recycling old tools. Can be use for pressing anything really. If it was me I would add a safety chain or something like that to connect to the shaft of the tool being just in case it decides to pop off or snap under pressure. Subscribed as well.
Very neat,
I'm now making a bearing press.
Thanks.
Great job
Grazie, bel video, bella idea, immagini nitide, bella maestria!
Fausto, (Roma, Italia)
wow, you are a great welder!
Ha I don't think so! Should see me on a stick welder
Will Matthews you're that bad???
you are an artist
Nice job.... You have given me an idea..... Thanks for all your videoing too.. I know that take time to edit...
I'm sure you got a kick out of the project,it's been done many times before,but you did a top notch job and we'll worthy of my 5 ☆ rating
LOVE IT!
Neat build!
I also love it when people speed up their videos like yours. I think it's hilarious
Sweet. I haven't used an axe since I started using chain saw and log splitter.
Nice work!
Gabriel Machado
I enyoy all you videos!
Awesome man! Love the magpie @ 12:03.
fantastic work, fabulous I loved to see if I get the same
Thanks for sharing your ideas as I do with my work.
Greetings from Chile
For future builds (saw you commented about a mk 2 design) your jack would provide greater force if it had equal load across the ram. Meaning due to the one sided adjustment rail, your jack had to push up and over to the right. You could save yourself alot of headache by replacing the square tubing with 2 pieces of 1/2" x 3 x ?? tall, flatstock. Make more of a "H" frame where the "-" is the moveable jig for holding the work. Would be easy to layout spacing on 1 part and drill both at the same time on your drill press. Join both rails from the top or backside (to avoid clearance issues) with equal thickness stock. Then instead of having welded anchor pins, they could be just long bolts or round stock that could be slid in from the side. I believe you will find alot more "oomph" this way in your existing jack. Hopefully this doesn't come across wrong. Not telling you how to do it, or anything like that. Just going off of what life's taught me. Keep creating and nice thought out idea for a very common issue. Simple solution with mechanical advantage, what's not to love!?
Thanks for showing this straight up without any crappy background music
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Very good job
I'm genuinely shocked that bottle jack wasn't cast iron and took the weld so well.
This is great work. Maybe on the next prototype you add a return spring, but this looks very functional and precise as-is.
joedanger666 the cheaper newer versions are usually just plate on the bottom and contrary to belief you can mig cast iron as long as it's not super structural. I repaired a broken bearring race on a belt sander 3 years ago and still going.
Very nice and cool!!
Very good!!!
Very good! 👍
Wow!! greetings from MX
Cool video!
Adorei. Vc é um gênio!!
nice work my friend
Great Job
Nice little bearing press as well.
Wow very nice. I'm glad I've got a powerplasma cutter though. I hated cutting plate with an angle grinder.
Nice idea man it is magnificent, you're very handsome, keep going like that, you're going away, Brazilian watching you crazy, congratulations on the service! I've already joined the channel ... I hope more videos like this!
Great value!
Lovely job, great detail, we'll Done 🤪
Looks easier than the Ibeam press to make nice job!
Gute, saubere Arbeit - sehr schön !
Espetacular sua ideia parabéns por compartilhar...
Молодец!!! Руки у Вас золотые!!!👍👍👍
Time for a plasma cuter bro! That would compliment your shop. Like how thorough you are.
Very good man!!!
Nice build man 👍
For those of us who want to weld, but haven’t taken the time to learn, could you add some brief information about the welding process you used, and the type of rod, if that is important to this welding process in this situation. This could be added to the “show more” box, without adding anything to the video. This is a great idea and a really well made video. Thanks for the excellent tip for reusing a bottle jack for various purposes around the shop, including as a wedge jack when rehandling axes. Consider squirting some glue into the slot in the axe handle in addition to just putting it on the wedge - could result in better lubrication when pressing the wedge into the slot and a better, stronger glue joint when the glue dries.
Estas máquinas reinventarse son fabulosas sigan adelante y gracias por las ideas
Nice bro, tnx for sharing it!!!
When polishing small pieces like that i glued a strong magnet to the underside of my table into a square i had nitched out that kept 1/16 of wood from magnet to meterial. Ever since then i havnt lost small pieces ive polished on my table.
Well done.👍👍👍
nice project
Funny, i didn't read the title and figured out what the device was for only when the axe appeared on the scene. :)
Really interesting idea great project but I was for some reason thinking that it was going to be a kindling splitter a axe press lol
I like that hammered metal look. ;)
Amazing work verry nice all ways love your videos
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Amazing work !
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Your sander is fantastic.
Nice invention